Re: [PATCH] Checking integrity of installed packages in cygcheck

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:59:00PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>> Btw, have you considered some kind of rpm -f functionality?  That would
>> allow a user to do a:
>>
>> cygcheck -f /usr/bin/ls.exe
>> fileutils-4.1-2
>>
>> Also some kind of functionality which would allow cygcheck to query
>> the same files as the web search would be really cool.  Something like
>> a:
>>
>> cygcheck --whatprovides /usr/bin/ls.exe
>>
>> would be really useful.
>
>I'm not sure I see the difference between the two cases above.

-f checks the installed database in /etc/setup/package.lst.gz (similar
to rpm -f), --whatprovides checks the "database" on sources.redhat.com
(similar to Red Hat's up2date?).  That's what I meant by "the same files
as the web search".

I don't see why -f wouldn't be relatively trivial to do since we know
have code in cygcheck which uncompresses and opens each of the package
files.  --whatprovides would require a net query, of course.  That would
be more complicated.

>> Another interesting thing would be to do some ntsec/mkpasswd/mkgroup
>> type sanity checks or even to fix up common ntsec problems.
>
>Yeah.  At least have it check for the group name of "mkpasswd" or
>"mkgroup"...  That, however, would require a separate flag, IMO.

Why a separate flag?  Why not always do it with a cygcheck -s?

cgf